The blog of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, provides ideas on how students can celebrate, including how to invite a FIRE staff member to speak at their campus. Read their blog post here.

Attorney David E. Kendall to give keynote address titled “The First Amendment and the Internet: Was Mark Twain Right?” at the Wabash College Public Discourse Summit, to coincide with Free Speech Week. Read more about this event here:

Not a Very P.C. Thing To Say: How the Language Police Are Perverting Liberalism By Jonathan Chait, New York magazine, 1-27-15 Around 2 a.m. on December 12, four students approached the apartment of Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who had recently published […]

Political and cultural analyst Alyssa Rosenberg writes for The Washington Post about why free speech is critical to the right to make movies. Follow the link to “For movies from ‘Citizenfour’ to ‘The Act of Killing’ free speech is a rich subject and a pressing issue”

On the ACLU Blog of Rights, Tony Ruthert presents recent events in the US to explain why Free Speech Week is as necessary now as ever before. Follow the link to read Do We Really Still Need Free Speech Week?